Ouyang Xiu
Ouyang Xiu, one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, was a literary scholar who left "the head of the willow on the moon, and the person is about after dusk", a Taishou who thinks that he "can enjoy himself with his drunkenness, and can write with the text when he wakes up", and is a talented man who "always works hand in hand at that time and travels all over the Fang Bush".
Ouyang Xiu's literary attainments are extremely high, his poetry and lyrics are extremely beautiful, and his talent is brilliant, but his appearance is really inconsistent with his elegant works. Ouyang Xiu on the portrait of a historical figure has a lang jun face. However, in fact, he looks average and can even be described as "ugly". He is not only highly myopic, but also toothless, as a man, weak and windy, no windy appearance.
Tang and Song Dynasties
Ouyang Xiu personally confirmed a sentence: "If people are ugly, they must read more", he is ugly and ugly, and he can't stop his talent. At the age of four, his father died of illness, cutting off the family's livelihood. In order to live, the lonely mother took him to his uncle, but the uncle's family conditions were not good, and he could not provide him with the conditions for studying. So his mother, who knew the great righteousness, took him to use the sand as paper, used the ogi grass as a pen, and learned to write one stroke at a time, completing Ouyang Xiu's enlightenment education. This is the famous "Ogi Cursive Book".
Ogi Cursive Books
Ouyang Xiu did not live up to his mother's hard work, Song Renzong Tiansheng seven years, he followed his father-in-law to the capital to take the imperial examination, took four exams, won three firsts, is a veritable bully. He naturally embarked on the career path, but because of his upright personality, the road was not smooth and he was often deposed. Zeng Guanzhi was a scholar of Hanlin, a deputy envoy to the Privy Council, and a counselor in government affairs, but also implicated in the failure of Fan Zhongyan's reforms, and was demoted to Yiling (present-day Yichang, Hubei) County. Political frustration, far from making him resentful, opened up new heights in his life.
Scenery of Yiling (present-day Yichang, Hubei)
He also pioneered the practical style of writing, established the concept of applied literature, and also made great contributions to kumon, a systematic theory of kumon, many of which are still used today.
Ouyang Xiu paid great attention to the descendants who had real talents and practical learning, so that a large number of "gold" that were not shining at that time stood out, and their reputation was famous in later generations, which was a rare Bole. Throughout his life, famous courtiers such as Bao Zheng and Sima Guang were discovered and recommended by him. Among the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, there were 6 in the Song Dynasty, and in addition to him, the remaining five people (Sansu Father and Son, Zeng Gong, and Wang Anshi) were all his protégés. In addition to political talents, there are other scholars such as Zhang Zai, Cheng Hao, lü Dajun and other scholars who have been discovered by him as cloth-clad people, without these people, would the accumulation of science in the Song Dynasty still be so deep? This fully shows Ouyang Xiu's vision as a senior, as well as the grace of promoting the younger generation.
Su shi
In his letter to a friend, he said that reading Su Shi's works is really a great pleasure in life! I couldn't help but sweat. As an old man, it seems that I should give way to young people. He also said to his son, you remember what I said, after thirty years, everyone will only know Su Shi, and no one will praise my work anymore. History has proved Ouyang Xiu's modesty and personality, he is immortal, until now, people not only remember Ouyang Xiu, but also still praise "tears ask flowers and flowers without words, red fly over the swing", and his political ideal of "enjoying with the people".
Ouyang Xiu single-handedly led to the thriving development of Northern Song literature.
Northern Song Dynasty
In addition to his extremely high literary attainments, Li Bai once commented on Meng Haoran: "The world is full of wind and fortune." This sentence is also appropriate for Ouyang Xiu. He was a gentleman and informal. Often at home to feast on guests, they invite relatives and friends. A large number of talented and well-educated people talked about it in his home and talked about wine.
Literati drinking alcohol is not as disgusting as the current "wine culture", but extremely interesting. In the summer, he took the prostitutes on a boat trip to the lake, drinking and having fun. It is not a simple "cow drink", but a lotus flower is picked, and when it reaches whoever passes it into his hand, he will pluck off a petal. In the end, whoever finishes picking the petals in their hands will drink a glass of wine with the petals. The aroma of wine is mixed with the fragrance of lotus flowers, and whoever is present, even if they do not drink, will be deeply intoxicated.
Ouyang Xiu sculpture
Although Ouyang Xiu is very ugly, he has won the affection of many beautiful women with his talent. His "successive" wives are also famous and beautiful women. This is "starting with talent, loyalty to character". Once, Ouyang Xiu's superiors invited colleagues and friends, including Ouyang Xiu, to dinner, and after a long time, they did not see Ouyang Xiu come out.
Finally, Ouyang Xiu came with a beautiful woman, and the woman explained, "Because the weather was too hot, I went to the room to rest for a while, and when I woke up, I found that the hairpin that had been tied in my hair was missing, and I looked for a while, so I delayed the time" Everyone looked at each other and smiled, and I understood a lot in my heart.
Because in ancient times, the ancient pillow was a "porcelain pillow", and a woman's hair would make a crisp sound when it touched the porcelain pillow. Therefore, there was a certain metaphor for the hair at that time, implicit and beautiful.
Everyone punished Ouyang Xiu for writing lyrics to make reparations, and Ouyang Xiu thought about it a little, and then he had this song "Linjiang Immortal"
"The rain on the light thunder pool outside the willow, the sound of rain dripping and breaking the lotus. The west corner of the small building is broken. Lean on the dry side and stay in the moon Watson. Swallows flew to peek at the painting building, and the jade hook hung down the curtain. Cool waves do not move the pattern flat. Water spirit double pillow, leaning over the fallen cross. "
As soon as the boss was happy, he used public money to pay the beautiful woman's hair. It seems that sometimes talent can indeed be spent as money.
Ouyang Xiu and his sculpture of Peony Pavilion
The wise man Leshui, the benevolent Leshan, despite being degraded, Ouyang Xiu was still open-minded and free, and he was left behind all over the motherland. When he was demoted to the post of Taishou of Chuzhou, he ordered people to build pavilions for tourists to rest their feet. Because he loved to drink, he called himself "Drunken Pavilion", and the pavilion was also named "Drunken Pavilion", and he also wrote an article for this pavilion that has been passed down through the ages, which is the "Drunken Pavilion Record". The article originally described a lot of Chuzhou scenery, but Ouyang Xiu deleted and subtracted, and finally only began with "Huan Chu Ji Shan Ye", and Ouyang Xiu's concise and practical literary propositions are also obvious.
Drunken Pavilion
He was degraded and had a long way to go, but he was not lonely, but drank with friends at night and stayed up all night. Although he saw the sinister official scene, he still did not forget his original intention and adhered to a free and optimistic attitude. For the government, writing literature, drinking and playing, he did not fall behind, as he was before he was degraded.
Ouyang Xiu's life has had great ups and downs and is very rich. More than other writers and poets, he was more like the ordinary people around us who were close to life: ugly, poor in his family, straight-talking, and repeatedly deposed for bumping into his superiors. In his later years, he did not know how to restrain himself, and thus ruined the reputation of half his life; he was also a rare predecessor in ancient and modern times: "literati are light" is the norm, but in his place, it is not. Not only love and cherish talents, but also try our best to create opportunities for talented people to promote and guide them.
Without Ouyang Xiu's recommendation, the glory of the Northern Song Dynasty literary circle would have dimmed by most of the time; he was still a rare literary talent, talented but not "flashy", creating a new pragmatic style of writing, leaving behind many famous articles.
He was the literati who "least resembled" the literati; there was no pedanticness of the literati, but there was the indifference and elegance of the readers. In his later years, he called himself "June 1st Layman", that is, he had a collection of 10,000 volumes, a thousand volumes of Golden Stone Testaments, a piano sheet, a chess game, a pot of wine often prepared at home, and his own old man. The speech is full of freedom and openness.
A guqin
On September 22, 1072, Ouyang Xiu completed his wonderful life at the age of 65. "I am only drunk as usual, and I will not teach the orchestra to deviate." I'm just drunk as usual, don't be sad. Ouyang Xiu's open-minded and hearty laughter lingered in the historical starry sky of the Chinese nation, decorating the dreams of countless benevolent people for thousands of years and comforting the hearts of every frustrated person. The breadth and thickness of his life are beyond the reach of ordinary people, and he still loves life after experiencing the dangers and sufferings of the world, which is true heroism and the best explanation for himself.